Nikon D3 Professional Technical Guide
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The a Autofocus group in the fi rst level of the Custom Settings menu contains a variety of advanced autofocus options. This chapter details options that can be used to frame moving subjects at sporting events: a1 (AF-C priority selection), a3 (Dynamic AF area), and a4 (Focus tracking with lock-on). These options are best used with the focus mode selector rotated to C (continuous-servo AF) and the AF-area mode selector rotated to I (dynamic-area AF).
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Digital Camera Technolohy Untangled
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Why megapixels are misleading and lenses still matter
1. Every technology has its limits
Digital Point-and-Shoot cameras are pushing the technological envelope so hard that some pundits are predicting the imminent demise of consumer-level Digital SLR cameras. Even $200 digicams (Digital Cameras) produce pictures that delight casual shooters, and fancier models are on offer all the way to $1,000, way past the prices of entry-level DSLRs. Finding your way around the digital camera market is harder than traversing the Scottish moors on a moonless night. This guide is an attempt to create order out of the current chaos.
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HARRY POTTER
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Lyubansky examines the question of racial prejudice in the world of Harry Potter. Rowling portrays a race-blind society at Hogwarts but pursues the issue of race through proxy: the hatred of the purebloods for the “Mudbloods” and the slavery of the house-elves. But, Lyubansky argues, the issues of race and prejudice are not so easily categorized.
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HP Virtual Server Environment Reference Architecture for Oracle RAC
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To succeed in today’s unpredictable marketplace, you need an IT environment that mirrors your business—one that responds to business demands by dynamically supplying computing resources as required. The HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers helps you meet this challenge.
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Hardware Virtualization Trends
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- Virtualization 101
- The world is changing
- Processor virtualization (Intel VT-x, VT-x2, AMD SVM)
- Security enhancements: LT & Presidio
- Paravirtualization (software isolation approach)
- I/O Virtualization (AMD, Intel VT-d)
- Hypervisor Landscape
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7 things you should know about Mapping Mashups
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Scenario
As part of a large undergraduate history course he teaches about World War II, Dr. Martinez developed a mapping mashup that he introduces to the 150 students at the beginning of the semester. The mashup, which works with Google maps, represents major events leading up to and during the war. Fundamentally, it’s a map, he explains, showing them on a projection screen that it works very much like the online mapping tools students regularly use. The map covers virtually the entire globe, and users can move around the world, zooming in and out, showing the area of search as a map, satellite images, or satellite images with maps, dates, and events superimposed.
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Mashups in Plone Leveraging Web 2.0
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A mashup is a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated
experience.
l Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004, refers to a supposed second-generation of Internet-based services - such
as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies - that let people collaborate and share information
online in previously unavailable ways.
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